Title from caption on object: “First Atomic Bomb Bursts on Japan”, August 6, 1945

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 27.2 × 19.3 cm (10 11/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 29.8 × 20.6 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2018.177.389

Artists / Makers

George R. Caron (artist) American, 1919 - 1995

United States Air Force (artist)

Associated Press (publisher)

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Inscription

by unknown hand, lower right in negative: 58189A; across bottom printed in image: (WX4-AUG. 11) FIRST ATOMIC BOMB BURSTS ON JAPAN--A TALL COLUMN OF / SMOKE BILLOWS 20,000 FEET ABOVE HIROSHIMA, JAPAN, AFTER THE FIRST / ATOMIC BOMB STRIKE BY AMERICAN AIR FORCES ON AUGUST 6. A CLOUD OF / SMOKE 10,000 FEET IN DIAMETER COVERS A PART OF THE CITY AT BASE OF / COLUMN. THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AFTER THE BOMB WAS RELEASED FROM AN / ALTITUDE OF BETWEEN 20,000 AND 30,000 FEET. (AP WIRE PHOTO FROM ARMY / AIR FORCES) (F71418AAF45) (EDS: FIRST OF TWO PICTURE ON THIS ATTACK); by unknown hand, bottom right in red ink: ✓; on verso, by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 275A / 8-11; upper right stamped in brown ink perpendicular: AUG 13, 1945; by unknown hand, center left in graphite perpendicular: 3 col [circled] / Bomb; center Associated Press copyright stamp in red ink perpendicular; center right stamped in brown ink perpendicular: AUG 13 1945; lower left stamped in red ink perpendicular: AUG 6 1985; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 3 col smoke / [illegible] Reach; across bottom in black ink: World War II--Japan--Hiroshima a[n]d Nagasaki

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary